WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened “bad things” would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that…
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a statute first enacted in 1792, allowing him to deploy the military inside the United States in response to protests in Minnesota. The largely peaceful protests intensified after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency officer shot and killed Reneé Good, a Minneapolis mother, after an encounter….
Judges on Friday ordered the federal government to continue providing food assistance during the shutdown. But benefits will still most likely be interrupted. Christine Tully, 78, worried that November would come but her food assistance from the federal government would not. Maybe she could will a good outcome, she thought, by writing down her grocery…
Springfield, IL ( CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS) -Illinois House Democrats kicked off their spring session this week in a mostly symbolic fashion, denouncing President Donald Trump’s policies in a series of resolutions criticizing immigration raids and cuts to health care and child care programs. “The session was an opportunity for us to emphasize how these policies…
BACKGROUND Tensions have flared along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The Taliban government confirmed it launched attacks on Pakistani troops in several mountainous areas, calling these “retaliatory operations” after accusing Pakistan of violating Afghan airspace and bombing a market inside Afghanistan’s border. The situation remains tense, with casualties still unclear. THE ATTACKS AND RESPONSES Both sides reportedly…
A group of civilians smash a statue of a Syrian Democratic Forces fighter in the city of Tabqa after the Syrian army took control of it on January 18, 2026 [Karam al-Masri/Reuters] Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is set to meet Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to consolidate a ceasefire after…
Former US President Barack Obama has warned of a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before” in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk. At an event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Obama said he did not know Kirk and disagreed with many of his views, but called the killing “horrific and…
CHICAGO — A federal judge on Tuesday admonished the agent leading the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, saying she wants to receive daily reports from him after federal authorities failed to follow her previous order to curtail the use of riot-control weapons on peaceful protesters, journalists and bystanders. “Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to…
Trump made several claims about the Middle East conflict and other global peace deals that were not entirely true. On the day Israel and Hamas exchanged captives and detainees as part of the Gaza deal, United States President Donald Trump framed the agreement he helped broker as a “historic dawn of a new Middle East”. “This is…
U.S. Secret Service agents have dismantled a network of electronic devices located in multiple locations around New York City that could be used to disable the city’s cellphone network, officials said Tuesday. They said the system was also used to anonymously convey assassination threats against senior U.S. officials and for criminal activities. In five locations…